Cigdem Asatekin considers the space between memory and forgetting in Saray’s latest exhibition of drawings
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The Year That Was: Degree Critical Reflects on 2020
Art writers consider the most meaningful works of art, from any time and genre, for getting through 2020
The Sight of Death, Over and Over
Cigdem Asatekin considers how two paintings in puzzle form helped to pass the time under the Covid-19 lockdown
Fallback Friday: “Doris Salcedo: A Mourning Offering”
Degree Critical revisits José Peña Loyola’s walk through this 2015 exhibit with his mother
Listening With the Ancestors: Cauleen Smith’s “Mutualities”
David C. Shuford reviews Smith’s first solo exhibition in New York
Fallback Friday: BYOF-Bring Your Own Flowers
Christine Licata reviewed Ei Arakawa’s 2007 intrepretative performance of Amy Sillman’s artistic process
Fallback Friday: Wet Suits and Male Gaze
DC revisits Tara Stickley’s timely reflection on the eve of Trump’s inauguration in 2017
Renée Green Holds Chromatic Space for Critical Contemplation
Kirsten Cave reviews Green’s current exhibition “Excerpts” at Bortolami Gallery
The Face of a Contracting World
Nyasha Chiundiza considers how the Covid-19 pandemic exists within Bruno’s cosmos and its rhythm of contraction
Fallback Friday: “Dispatch 33: It’s the Communications Environment, Stupid”
A 2016 dispatch written by Chair David Levi Strauss forecasts American democracy’s “digital doppelgänger” that now grips the nation
Selections from “The Making and Unmaking of Memories, or The Fragmenting Force of Memory”
Sahar Khraibani’s latest grant-supported work grapples with gaps in identity and language
Everything Is Contaminated, Pt. 2
Lune Ames considers the power of fermentation in the garden and in revolution